What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.